Attributes Quote by Richard B. Garnett

“Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.”

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Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

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In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

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Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

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Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

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Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

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Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

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As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

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Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.

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Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

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Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

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Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

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It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

Michael Servetus

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he…

Evelyn Waugh

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

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I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so…

Larry Gelbart

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A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your…

Anonymous

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

Herbie Hancock

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God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable…

Francis Chan

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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

Fionnula Flanagan

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“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

Sunday Adelaja

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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

Marilynne Robinson

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A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines…

Russell M. Nelson

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I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

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